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...more than 500 customers, mostly women, have taken the three-hour course. "I am here to teach you how to kill," says Tomlin to his students. For the first two hours, Tomlin lectures on state firearms laws and how to shoot intruders. Among his tips: use a .38-caliber pistol ("It's the best for getting the job done"); assume all burglars are armed; and never shoot someone on your lawn ("Wait for them to get inside before you open up"). Tomlin follows up with an hour of instruction on the range. "My sister's home was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Absolute War in Our Streets | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

According to Sergeant Alan Hayes, Roscoe asked the driver for his registration. When he could not produce it, Roscoe told him to get out of the car. The driver then pulled out a pistol and shot Roscoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Officer Shot | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

...gift as a singer springs from her neurosis, he says echoing Rilke's famous line: If analysis removes the demons that besiege an artist, won't it also take away the angels that motivate him? Adare replies, "That's garbage, doctor," and pulls out her pistol again, this time killing him. That done she is notorious, and Hollywood beckons. She is both an opera and a film star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Is Still Alive in New York | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...Iraqis are treated to a film of their President strolling through factories, bouncing babies on his knees, chatting with peasants-all to the soft strains of Tchaikovsky. Of late, in further pursuit of popularity, Saddam has even traded in his natty, British-tailored suits for a military fatigue jacket, pistol belt and red-checked kaffiyeh, making him look rather like an Arabic Fidel Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Attack for Iraq | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Durant, a former prosecutor, was rated a hard-liner when appointed in 1975, but rarely has lived up to the billing. His controversial decisions include a 1978 ruling that under a technicality in a state law, pistols were not firearms, and thus carrying a concealed pistol was not an offense. Such actions have won him a nickname: "Let-'Em-Go Joe." In the Snell case, Durant maintains that "the state was having trouble finding witnesses," and that without plea bargaining Snell might have gone scot free. Not so, insists Dade County Assistant State Attorney Leonard Glick: "I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Let-'Em-Go Joe | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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